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I would go back to when I was little, maybe around 5 years old, and tell my parents I had Asperger's Syndrome and was transsexual, so that I could get the proper treatment then instead of having to wait until I was an adult and had suffered for years!

Why- I can see where your going with this,(i did it myself) and for your own sake you're not doing yourself any good.I find it helps not to wish for time machines, rewind buttons on life and "if only".

I would jump forward at about 500 year increments. I would love to know what humanity is going to do! How far will man travel in space? Will we genetically engineer our offspring? How far will computer technology progress? What social problems will be solved? What problems will persist?

Oh I can think of a million things.I was shopping for Murano vases on ebay the other day and they easily run into the thousands or tens of thousands. This is a rather frequent fantasy of any collector - you go back in time and get tons of the crap you know your are gonna love in the future and which will be very valuable an garantee a good life in retirement.

Then there is all the humanitarian stuff.

Sometimes, also, I have this. In fact I did again the other day. I am time warped back in history and have to make the best of my hap hazzard knowledge on thousands of topics. What about a conversation with a medieval doctor. Could you explain what you know about the science of health today, in a way that would lead a medieval doctor to improve his "practice", as it were. Could you explain the difference between a viral and baterial infection?

Could you help prevent human tragedies - the Holocaust? Slavery in the Western Hemisphere. etc etc.

When i was boy there was this corny movie on "the 4:30 Movie." It was about a auntie and her niece? nephew? niece i think, from the corn belt, who took a couple of thousand dollars (hundred dollars?) and went to NY (or was it chicago) and lived the high life for a long time. Every so often when I am feeling poor I remember that movie and fantasize about time travelling on my modern salary. Wow, think of the house I could buy. When i think of what my parents paid for their house! Geez!

Also sex fantasies about the past.

And thats not even considering the future.

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i would be scared to go back in time. I'm afraid of that butterfly effect.What if by going back and changing something, I actually make my life worse!

oh I know that's the half-empty way to look at the glass; but I've often said I never worry about the good things that'll happen to me (why should I? They're good things for heaven's sake. I'll be happy they happened); but it's the bad things I worry about, try to plan for, and try to minimize. So rather that thinking I could go back and "make things right" (whatever that might even mean), I chose to worry about going back and screwing stuff up. criminy! My life has had enough issues now, without risking it being worse. LOL

I expected this thread to be filled with "I would go back and use a condom, " I would not have had sex with that guy", etc...and yet No one has said that.

I think this shows that we as HIV'ers are a strong group, and that given the chance we would take the opportunity to go back and become better people, help the world, etc.. in spite of the issue of HIV.

OK I would be a sociopathic xenophobe, and go back to the time of early humans and infect them all with HIV and then the butterfly effect might mean that HIV is no longer a threat to humans!!!! If some neaderthal like humans need to die for us in the present, so be it!

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I'd go back one day, play the winning numbers for the powerball, and travel back to the future to spend my 140 million on male hookers, booze, travel, and high end fashion (and I'd send some nice gifts to a couple of you byotches in here).

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Sometimes, also, I have this. In fact I did again the other day. I am time warped back in history and have to make the best of my hap hazzard knowledge on thousands of topics. What about a conversation with a medieval doctor. Could you explain what you know about the science of health today, in a way that would lead a medieval doctor to improve his "practice", as it were. Could you explain the difference between a viral and baterial infection?

Could you help prevent human tragedies - the Holocaust? Slavery in the Western Hemisphere. etc etc.

HA! Too late MEchh, you already said this...."Then there is all the humanitarian stuff", "Could you help prevent human tragedies - the Holocaust? Slavery in the Western Hemisphere. etc etc".

You 'ol softy you

Epidemiologically speaking, we're talking wiping out near all of the early human race. People with human rights as much as ourselves today. I think its sociopathic! Intent to do harm. Re: other current threads!

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The point of the story is that you CAN NOT change anything in the past, lest it will have horrible repercussions on the future.

actually the OP just asked what you would do with a time machine. There were no stipulations on going back, or going forward, or not being able to effect either. I'm the one that suggested going back and screwing with things would mess up the present; but that's just me, because I'm a worrier.

If I really had a time machine, I would go back a short amount of time, change something to make my life and/or others better, and then I would travel to the future to make sure I made things better not worse.

Hmmm, but that was the plot of a Star Trek Voyager 2-part episode ("The Year of Hell") where Annorax, after he meddled with time with his time-ship, keeps trying to "fix" the past to return to a present/future where his wife wasn't dead. Which I guess just gives some credence to my opinion of not screwing with time cause it'll mess everything up.

Hmmm, but that was the plot of a Star Trek Voyager 2-part episode ("The Year of Hell") where Annorax, after he meddled with time with his time-ship, keeps trying to "fix" the past to return to a present/future where his wife wasn't dead. Which I guess just gives some credence to my opinion of not screwing with time cause it'll mess everything up.

See what you've missed by not being a Trekkie. LOL

Ha! I watched this scenario develop for a whole season of X-men cartoon when they send a mutant from the future to change the past. And then he goes back to the future to check if it worked out. It would always get worse and he'd go back in time. I don't think he ever figured it out Don't remember what year - 1994 or 95.

I would probably go ahead and ask friends if they wanted to have sex. I remember having sooo many hot guy friends in highschool who would joke around and say, "Suck it." I passed it off as joking and was afraid to do anything. I know now that they probably were serious and were passing it off as a joke.

If you watch those NOVA specials, many scientists actually believe time travel is possible. I can never get my mind around that concept.

If you watch those NOVA specials, many scientists actually believe time travel is possible. I can never get my mind around that concept.

Like - gymrat said - scientists believe that you can only travel *forward* in time. Way you do it is by getting on a rocket that moves with the speed of light. While you are on that rocket time will pass much slower than on Earth. So when you return, Earth could move forward 100 years while you spent only 2 years on the rocket. But then you'll be just living in the future - no way to get back.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Dears I havent worked out the technicalities Im waiting to hear from the Aaron Diamond Fondation.

Yes, dears, its a sociopathic idea, as I noted in my first mention.

It only came up in response to ourselves patting ourselves on the back in the first posts of this thread for such high and mighty human uses of the time machine.

Oh for the technicalities - i guess people who have the genes for long-term-survival would survive to produce babies. Also I think you could imagine that since the entire race has not been infected with HIV, if it were, we might find many more ways that people might be naturally good defenders.

Long term non progressors do have immunity. Immunity means resistance to disease.

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